address
noun [ C ]
uk/əˈdres/ us/ˈædres/a building number, name of the road, etc. where you live, where an organization has an office, or where mail is sent:
Please send your application to the address below.
What is your full address?
a business/home address
Taxpayers who have moved should make certain they file a change of address with the U.S. Postal Service.
See also
accommodation address
forwarding address
(also email address)
the words and symbols that you type in order to send an email to a particular person. It usually consists of a person's name, an @ sign, the name of a company or school, and sometimes an abbreviation for a country:
I sent the email to the wrong address.
What's your email address?
INTERNET (also web address)
the words and symbols that you type to look at a particular website:
How much web information could be captured: just the overall address or a list of each document viewed?
IT
→ memory address
COMMUNICATIONS
a formal speech:
in an address to sb/sth 'I can only see continued growth ahead of us,' the Chairman said in an address to analysts and money managers.
See also
accommodation address
forwarding address
address
verb [ T ]
uk/əˈdres/ us [ usually passive ]
to write an address on an envelope or package so it can be sent to the person who has that address:
be addressed to sb/sth Make sure that your package is addressed to the correct department.
a stamped addressed envelope
to speak to a group of people, especially in a meeting or formal event:
He addressed a group of forty industrialists and politicians.
to speak to someone in a particular way or using a particular name:
address sb as sth She addressed him as Mr Clifford.
to deal with a particular problem or need:
It is time to address the budget deficit.
address a problem/issue How does the organization address the problems identified?
address a need He was impressed with the business plan because it addressed a real need.